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Exercising First Amendment Rights
"People have the right to protest — that’s what democracy is all about."
— Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State
Protests have always been part of movements for justice in…
America's Moment of Reckoning
Dr. Cornel West is an author, social critic, and democratic intellectual. He is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and holds the title of Professor Emeritus at Prin…
A Prayer for the Prospering of the Poor People's Campaign
Visions for a more just and compassionate world can take decades to come to fruition. We now have the soul-stirring opportunity to be part of Dr. Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign, inaugur…
Wisdom on Racism
African-American Wisdom
When you talk about hope, you have to be a long distance runner.
— Cornel West in Hope on a Tightrope
"You must lay your lives on the altar of social change so that…
Could You Be Friends with a White Supremacist?
Will D. Campbell, a progressive Baptist preacher, marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., in Birmingham and Selma, and served as a race relations troubleshooter for the National Council of Churches. Y…
Unleashing America's Shadow
"With media complicity, Trump has unleashed the beast that has long resided not far from the American hearth, from those who started a Civil War to preserve the right to enslave a fellow human to th…
The Whitney Plantation
Forty-six miles west of New Orleans, near Wallace, Louisiana, in St. John the Baptist Parish situated on the west bank of the Mississippi River, you will find The Whitney Plantation. It was establis…
Skyrocketing Prison Population Devastating U.S. Society
On Commondreams.org Sarah Lazare shares the dire impact of four decades of massive imprisonments in the United States. This report by the National Research Council (an arm of the National Academy of…
Locked Up and Locked Out
On April 11, 2014, the New America Foundation held a program titled "Locked Up and Locked Out: Securing a Second Chance at Economic Citizenship for Ex-Offenders." Monica Potts was on a panel which r…
A Prayer for Ending Police Racism and Violence
News: An article by Kate Stringer in YesMagazine.org spells out a crisis:
"After being pulled over for a busted taillight on July 6, Philando Castile informed a Minnesota police officer at his wi…